At the end of class, as Nadra was packing up her books, she distinctly heard her instructor say that the due date for the writing assignment was Friday. As the students filed out of the classroom a few minutes later, a classmate asked her when the writing assignment was due, and she replied, "Um . . . I forgot already." Nadra most likely forgot the due date for the writing assignment because:
A) she experienced an encoding failure.
B) she experienced a retrieval failure.
C) she did not hear the instructor give the due date.
D) her long-term memory was full.

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Nadra most likely forgot the due date because she experienced an encoding failure, meaning the information was not effectively processed into her memory.

At the End of Class, as Nadra Was Packing Up